Parking - Phoenix Park / Chesterfield Avenue

plys

Hi,

I commute from Meath to Dublin City Centre on a daily basis for work. In good faith, I participated in the Cycle-to-work scheme, got a bike, and started cycling the 50k round trip, building up to three times a week.

Unfortunately, I think i pushed myself too hard and fell victim to severe tendonitis in the Achilles. As a result, I have been off the bike for some time now, but i reckon I'm fully recovered and ready to get back cycling again.

To that end, I was hoping to do a hybrid commute, ie to drive to the Phoenix Park with the bike on the back of the car, dump the car, and cycle the rest of the way into the city centre.

My question is simple: is parking on Chesterfield Avenue restricted in any way? I'd be thinking of parking down the Castleknock end and cycling the length of the park so I could get a decent enough spin in each way.

If parking is free, does anyone on here do this type of commute daily, and have they had any issues with it?

Thanks,

plys

lennymc

i do this quite a bit - its free parking, you can park up at castleknock gate, or down by the zoo. Once you go past the last roundabout heading towards town tho, there is no parking. Ive been parking there for a few years, and havent had any security problems, but, sometimes I do see broken glass on the ground. I guess just make sure that there is nothing valuable in the car.

twinsen

I don't park my car there , but I see people doing this every day(parking cars and cycling off to town), when I cycle to work in ballycoolin.
I am not sure if it is free though.

Skrynesaver

Hi Plys,

It's free and legal at the Castleknock end, don't leave anything valuable showing, build up slowly again and soon you'll be parking in Blanch, then Clonee then doing the whole thing again.

I gradually pushed out to Ashbourne from Glasnevin.

plys

Cheers guys, that's good to know. Can anyone recommend a good bike rack??!

Skrynesaver, do you go down the old N2?

Jawgap

plys wrote: »

Cheers guys, that's good to know. Can anyone recommend a good bike rack??!

Skrynesaver, do you go down the old N2?

I've a Thule roof mounted jobbie and it does the business.

As for routing, one option worth considering is the Kilbride Road which runs parallel to the N2 - it can be busy but you don't tend to get the trucks and buses on it like you do on the N2.

plys

Jawgap wrote: »

I've a Thule roof mounted jobbie and it does the business.

As for routing, one option worth considering is the Kilbride Road which runs parallel to the N2 - it can be busy but you don't tend to get the trucks and buses on it like you do on the N2.

Lol my folks live on that road, at the Ratoath end, so I grew up there! Back when i was a young lad I used to cycle to East Wall and back daily... on a BSO... to a job with no shower facilities!!

I'm sure the road surface has improved since then, and maybe the traffic is a little lighter... but i just can't quite get over being pelted with rocks while passing the halting site at Cappagh... :eek:

Seriously though, where would one park along there if one was to try to build up the distance?

Jawgap

plys wrote: »

Lol my folks live on that road, at the Ratoath end, so I grew up there! Back when i was a young lad I used to cycle to East Wall and back daily... on a BSO... to a job with no shower facilities!!

I'm sure the road surface has improved since then, and maybe the traffic is a little lighter... but i just can't quite get over being pelted with rocks while passing the halting site at Cappagh... :eek:

Seriously though, where would one park along there if one was to try to build up the distance?

I usually bear of at Hollystown and come down through Mulhuddart, Blanch and Castleknock, so I'm spared the delights of the halting site.

Working back from the Park, you could leave the car at the National Aquatic Centre, Hollystown GC (I'd ask them first!), Kilbride, then Ratoath or Ashbourne.